Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ardrossan. You may be able to find further references to Ardrossan in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ardrossan	a seaport town and watering-place	Groome
Ardrossan, New	quoad sacra parish	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ardrossan.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Caddel	a burn	Groome
Kirkhall	seat	Bartholomew
Kirkhall	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Montfode Castle	ruined fortalice	Bartholomew
Pavilion	seat	Bartholomew
Seafield Tower	seat	Bartholomew
Seafield Tower	a mansion	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Ardrossan within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Saltcoats	0	2
Stevenston	0	2
Ardeer	0	2
West Kilbride	0	3
Kilwinning	0	2
Blair	0	2
Dalry	0	2
Fullarton	0	2
Irvine	10	4
Hunterston	0	2
Perceton	0	2
Little Cumbrae	0	2
Dreghorn	0	2
Fairlie	0	2
Millport	0	2
Glengarnock	0	2
Troon	0	2
Cumbrae	0	3
Kilbirnie	0	2
Dundonald	0	2